IPM damage

[trd 0]

hi, was wondering if anyone here knew a rough equation for a calculating damage done by ipms on defense. was looking to integrate it into a program for number of ipms to take out a defense given techs and counts. as usual, search on oof is about useless or I am completely inept as usual.

 

thanks ahead of time

[Yarasa 0]

try this

 

http://www.geocities.com/nuevorenacer2005/Raksim_e.html

[trd 0]

got that and speedsim, was looking for the maths that go into the destruction so that I can replicate myself and integrate into ORP.

[Ike 1]

Well, check out the Fleet and Defenses Firepower Analysis thread. You can couple this with info from the shipyard and defense screens ingame.

 

- Ike

[Blade 1]

Well, check out the Fleet and Defenses Firepower Analysis thread. You can couple this with info from the shipyard and defense screens ingame.

 

- Ike

 

That is what I was going to suggest as well. Or talk to a GA, or a programmer guy.

[trd 0]

That is what I was going to suggest as well. Or talk to a GA, or a programmer guy.

 

thx ike, got me part of the info I was missing. pain was right to ask the ipm experts of uni9.

 

realized that speedsim was open source, so I dug around in the source code and got their formulas. pseudocode is below:

 

 

1. MaxDamage = 12500 * ( 1 + ( myWeapons / 10 ) )

2. MaxDef = ( 1 + ( defArmour / 10 ) ) * SumOfAll [ DefenseUnitTypesCountEachUnit * MaxFirePowerAbsorbedByEachUnitInOneShot ]

where MaxFirePowerAbsorbedByEachUnitInOneShot is defined below from info Ike pointed me towards:

RL 220

LL 225

HL 900

Gauss 3700

Ion 1300

Plasma 10300

SmallDome 4000

LargeDome 20000

 

3. NumIpmsNeeded = CountAbms + Ceil( MaxDef / MaxDamage )

where Ceil is a delphi function ceiling which would take say 2.1 then round up to 3 and 0.75 and round up to 1.